Thorius minutissimus Taylor, 1949
| family: Plethodontidae subfamily: Hemidactyliinae genus: Thorius |
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Country distribution from AmphibiaWeb's database: Mexico
Author: Jean Raffaëlli Thorius minutissimus Taylor, 1949
[Revisé janvier 2017]
* Environs immédiats de Santo Tomas Teipan, à 2 500 m, en forêt mixte pins/chênes. Découvert en 1946 par MacDougall, un autre exemplaire retrouvé en 1955. Seuls deux exemplaires retrouvés en janvier 2001 par Hanken dans un reste de forêt de chênes sur un talus de route, un 3e en avril 2009. La population de Sola de Vega, où des Thorius considérés comme minutissimus ont été découverts dans une forêt mixte dégradée à 115 km à l'ouest de Santo Tomas Teipan, correspond à T. longicaudus. Extrêmement rare. CR. Bolitoglossa zapoteca cité des environs de la localité- type. ENGLISH TRANSLATION of 1st Ed. - Julian Wittische It is a very small species of the eastern Sierra Madre del Sur (Oaxaca), but is still bigger than T. infernalis of the Sierra Madre del Sur of Guerrero. It resembles T. narisovalis by the form of its nostrils, but it has a smaller size. 2.2cm SVL (4.7cm). The snout is truncated and narrow. It seems to lack a fifth toe. The eye is black and as well as the superior eyelid which strongly contrast with the brown color of the head where a large dorsal stripe, continuing on the tail, starts. Flanks are dark brown and contrast too. Ventral parts are light as well as the insertion zone of the limbs. Two other species should be described soon, describing a complex of species which were included in TÂ . minutissimus until now (Wake, personal comment). Habitat & Range : Santo Tomas Tecpan, east of Sola de Vega, at an altitude of 2500m, in mixed pine/oak forests. 51Km2. Conservation :
Critically endangered. Extremely rare, it was rediscovered in 1999 south of Sola de
Vega,
at an altitude of 2100 m, in an altered mixed forest. Feedback or comments about this page.
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